THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960.
I
DONALD EDGAR REPORTS FROM GERMANY.
A German speaks: We're
Bonn. FIND it difficult to write this story calmly. But I must try. Let me explain the cir- cumstances. I have just come from Cologne, where I have been talk- ing to the Jews who have once more been insulted with the swastika.
I came on here to find out more about these nationalist Nazi groups, and also what Germans are really thinking about the situation.
Destiny
from I turn
my head the table and I look out over the Rhine-river of destiny for Romans, Ger- French, and for us. mans, About the only sensible re- mark Baldwin made in the thirties was that our iron- tier was on the Rhine.
And here in Donn, centre of the West German Cover- 17241 1 German of around 56 selu told me vern freely and frankly
thought
And the
Today,
schat
he
about both the Jeez
fed up with this guilt business
be give and take. And the trou ble with the Jews has been that alt ther have done is to take.
we have given them millions of marks,
And what have we had in return? Arrogance. Just arro- gance. Do you know that the other coy they demanded that
Can
our history books should be written in a certain way. you imagine the English puting up with that
Take all this business about the Cologne synagogue. It may have been stupid-stat all I have heard on the radio since it happened has been Cologne.... I've gol Cologne,... Cologne, so tired of it that I won't sten to the radio any more.
No wrong
about
||POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Watch that right arm, Siegfried!"
to
impossible to belleve. "No," he of replied. "They really are do- ing it."
#
my
It was plty about brother, He was hanged by the British after the war. Somehow or other they managed to pin responsibility on to him for the ocents. death of four British They said he had Injected them with something or other.
But after all, war is war, If you are a spy and are caught you expect to be shot,
If you are in the army in an occupied country and they shool one of your men, it's only na- tural that you to out and shoot A few of them. War is war,
Bestial
We may
have
bombed Coventty and London. But look what you did to us in return. I was in Darmstadt during and rald. You burned 30,000 people in 50 minutes,
Have a look at this news- paper-the General Anzeiger. And then what happened Look at the front page big me at the end of the war? leading article on the Cologne
I had to work at Now look at this
a menial syna rogue. position of Germany item inside the paper. Just four task in factory and then as a
Ines insignificant
labourer on the land-five years up with ร Protestant church being of it. It was'! easy bringing up desecrated with Alth and diri. a family on that sort of money,
when I had been in a big post- tion, But then I managed to get late this line and thing's gone well.
I found the answers teritying Probably the best way is to let ilm have his say and then afterwards I shall try to com-
I bedove is ment on what significant point of view of this great, but crazy race.
Give and take
And yet the Jews are only a minority here. And a minority at that.
small
But no, this Rovermont in Bonn and the newspapers und the radio will keep on about the Jews und what they have suffered,
Look at me. I am a refugee from Pomerania. In 1943 my children and I had to
I should
A say it is
very typical viewpoint
the of eduested. middle-class man with a position of responsibility. wife
I don't wish to wreek his life. so I will not give his name. But I can say he has a quite high position
organisation Ananced by his government and it is to do with youth. God help
30
It came pouring out Blood,
like
You see, we were quite willing to be decent to the Jews at the and make end of the war amends. But there has got to
leave our home everything- beenuse of the Russians. sup- So I've had about 1,500 marks in compensation. If I had been have a Jew I expect I should had about 65,000 at least.
I was quite a high official in (Labour the Arbelladelnat ('orpa) under Hitler. But why should I feel guilty about what they did wrong? As far as I am concerned I did no wrong.
Hanged
every-
"I don't feel guilty.
And I know that most of us Germans
I should game. feel the
that 90 per cent of Germans hadn't a clue of what was going
say
on in the concentration camps,
We Germans are getting fed this gulli business, Everybody including our own government-is always on about what we Germans did.
But what about what others You should know did to us. what beatial things the Czechs the did to our countrymen at end of the war. You'd be sick if you heard. What with Crechs and Russians, DVET 3,000,000
ed.
there --
have
anti-Semitism especially against the Jews who were refugees from Germany,
You naked what our modern youth in Germany thinks about the Jews, and democracy,
The answer is very little, I was talking to a student the this Cologne other day about affair. He said "What's all this fuss about the Jews?"
FCC
our
You
that's why government is so wrong giving this this prominence to Swastiko business.
all
like
his something
But the trouble is thoughts. they keep them concealed
THEY are fed up with their load of guilt,
THEY are conscious of their tremendous achievements since the war.
THET associated democracy with defeat,
It was a charming. cultured Nazi, government official, no
**The danger who said to me: is, you see, that we have had democracy twice. But it has Cach after defeat only come
If they kept it quiet nobody time-Weimar and now Bonn.
would have worried about it.
You ask: Are young people here nationally minded?
No.... In shanty ways that's their trouble. They just don't their race--not worry about enough.
The danger
by its own
It had to
"The tragedy is that Nazitam was not destroyed infierent cvil. destroyed foreigners and battle."
be from outside, by
on the Geld of
able.
The Germans-60 hard working. so cultured, so courageous, are a trage race. Even after all the years I have known them I still wonder at them.
For they are a danger.
Two objectives
I think that in the heart of nearly every German there are twa political objectives.
ONE unification with the Fast Zone.
"the
All cur modern youth thinks earning money and about 19 spending it on a high standard But I will say they of ilving. are quite willing to work for 11. The trouble is they are com- materialistic minded. pletely
for a fow idealistic Except students they are just interested in work and a good time.
Yes. I have many good friends I have travelled in England. there. So has my family. And in my work I try and tell young people or today that now they must respect each other what
their race, 1 tell them the necessity of Euro- unity And 1
Think by and large 1 have aucecoded with them.
The hour was getting late. He recovered.
is fecting his small tubby man, strength. He is caressing his I should say that 80 per cent. got up-a
He has escaped from about very fit, very kind and polite, muscles.
So wrong
And then take the Americans.
I only got to know towards Look how badly they behaved the end of the war. My brother to our prisoners of war. Wa dentist with medical knowledge. I was in the E6.
For some reason or another ha of Germans was punished by being posted what to a concentration comp
We happened to be both on All leave together once and he we did was to work ourselves whispered to me what was fo-
ing on. I told him I found silly fruin morning till night.
NOBODY WANTS ANY
FIGHTING ON RIVER
OF THE ARABS”
From GEOFFREY THURSBY
'Abadan.
PERSIA is becoming alarmed at the threat to the great refinery at Abadan — source of much- needed foreign currency--from the claim of Iraq's General Kassem to a three-mile strip of land by the Shatt-al-Arab ("River of the Arabs").
18 the strip Included in Persia's vital deep-water port
Khorramshahr,
The Lerritory 18 Persia's under a river agreement
with Iraq.
minor sections, the remainder of the river which is the border be- tween Persia and Iraq for 70 miles up from the blistering hot Persian Gulf-ls Iraq's.
Except for other
I called recently in the dis- puted waters of the Shalt-1- Arab.
In large areas of the refinery and near the wharves are great god signs: "No smoking."
'Disastrous'.
A refinery export told me: "Any fighting in the area could be disastrous for us. If there were a stray bullet, or certainly a siray rocket" he threw his hands in the air-"Whew! Up
we would go."
BASA PERSIA KHOĦRAMESAKE
ALADAA
IRAQ
10 MILES 20
Persia is determined to stand fast---but in Teheran there is awareness of the great danger with the refinery in Abadan.
'Calm down'
D
Later ofter Iraqi radio attacks
Persia, Teheran radio said: "Kacsem is a Red servant of black imperialism"
whatever that means.
Among the brick English-like war. bouses from the days when the
Britain
and America have
to
are sorry happened Jews bill We too, suffered. There are two to every problem.
ever about
benn
TWO getting back lost territories"—the areas now incorporated in Russia, Poland and Czecho-slovakia.
they God only knows how think they are going to do it.
But it's just as well to realise they will have a good try,
They are not on the side of the status quo,
STARBER
"Gee, YOU must have a SPEEDY motorcycle, The other policeman couldn't catch us"
"I heard Dad say you folks were stuck up. Did they get much?"
Just Fancy That
NAME MARGOT FONTEYN, Britain's prima ballerina whose
The German giant has DAME
husband is Dr Roberto Ariss, has been elected. Panama's
He
Woman of the Year" by La Hors, the city's birrent selling news- paper. And who is the owner of La Hora? Why, Dr Roberto Arias,
the wearing rather long phus fours most of his physical bonds and have of the type the Duke of Wind- now he is determined to forget
sor favoured in the '30s. aldea
the mental bond -- a feeling of SANTA CLAUS, five site ears, and 400 child
I have been to America. And
11
I should say that there is plenty
He gullt.
I will say this for him.
reindeer in Toronto last Christmaa, Someone had unharmessed was honest and outspoken.
This is the background to
them from Santa's ele!gh outside à department store. One reindeer. For, I should say and this is the incldents of the last
Lew Cupid, was recaptured. The other, Comet, is still free. Germans weeks....
-(London Express Service). the danger most
Life with the Swiss family Burton
THEY FIND A NEW WALES... WITH MORE SNOW AND LESS TAXATION
RICHARD BURTON is back in Wales. Not, exactly, in the land of his
fathers. This one has more snow, more sun and less taxation.
But Wales is the new name that the actor-in-exile has put on the gate of his Swiss home, And Welsh indeed is the local colour inside "Le Pays de Galle," a snug secluded villa about 10 miles from Geneva surrounded by vines and stocked with Jenkinses.
It was as one of the 13
Jenkinses that Burton was
born 34 years ago near
By RICHARD FINDLATER
It
AFE DE LA GARLY BUFF
R
A relaxed Richard Burton plays draughts outside a Swiss cafe.
out his items on his fingers,
Yet
home,
Having just worked
"One fat this, "On Broadway it jusi im't contractual obligations by in Hampstead. One house in the same."
and making Ice Palace The Wales for my sister. One Juguar,
Both Stratford and the Old Bramble Buch, he is now-he And £2,000 In the bank."
Vie have invited him to join declared hopplly" treo man
them The only other theatre for the first time in years.”
Cellgay isn't Just refuge for Burton. It's a real in whieh Burton wants to set is
He's And now he is free to work second
boen Bernard Milles's Mermaid ta helps-with three other Port Talbot. I found a few older jalopy, we walked up to
railway cale for a things to distinguish him from for six months of the year in nocepted as a Swiss citizen. new play about Alexander the them of
in the Hitle recently
ather citizen he Great has been on the carpet romantic Britain which he left in 1958 in Like every
revolt agoinst the been issued with a rifle to for many moons). Celigny where the miner's pre-inch drink of white wine the golden gang of
from the Burton leads at the surumit. The other frank (the brew
of the Inland defend his country. son from Pontrhydyfen vineyards isn't yet ready for things, I subunit, are his shrewd demands condour, his sharp intellect, and Revenue, now one of Britain's top consumption).
his blazing theatrical talent. pald stars-has just re- turned from another dollar- spinning year in Holly- wood.
Cross-talk
real
But what is he going to DO with that talent?
A musical
And what then?, Apart from determination to Jepra
of 'new
There's a year-Hmmit in hie As I saw last month, Switzer- King Arthur contract. So there's theatre. a chance that we might see one land bums with good And when he wants to go of our best actors on the stage further afield, "Sybil and I can again in 19511 be in Paris in 40 minutes and
in ikea living
His diaries
Fiero some of his richer „Once upon a time he seemed a
of the Russian his plans are um come back after the show," And with the Jenkins neighbours
to be the white hope (including the
an artist who settled until September, when Burtim
Meanwhile, Burton, is con- clan I met the latest Bur- one with eight cars but not English stage,
rehearsals for the
1 can certainly tinuing the diaries in which I gather, the one with 26 would give fresh vigour to the he begins
musical Switzerland, Lerner-Loewe
glad to every Sunday he Jots down But I understand instructions/ton production - Jessica wives) eajoy the French cook- great but eroded tradition
King see why. Yet I am он Broadway about have now been issued by the then 23 days old. Like her ing alde by side with the tocal classic acting.
Arthur bered, so they my, report that he still loves the in "cryptogrammaller form the Inser secrets of an actor's ("that's Shah to calm down the radio elder sister Kate (at two. villagers
"the youngest Lady Mac democracy").
Turning down fat film jobs to on T H. White's The Oncy and theatre..
Nothing he has ever done in working life. beth in the business," says
play at the Old Vic-'t want to Future King.
They dale right back to hla And here I listened to the set as many big parts as I can
But I learned that the Alms, he adultet, has, over father relaxing, his affectionate cross-tale of Bur under my belt, he told me
actor first role at netinery belonged to the Anglo- secretly appealed to both sides her
Oxford, when He immediate prospect given him as an
He talked himself into the Iranian Oil Company--you get to settle
the fraction of the satisfaction their dispute. They stubbornly unsentimental tort and his elder brother Tor, then he stirred up the
pf Burton's return to the feeling that too bot a breath foar the destruction, of the muak) Jessica was born once a' champion rugger player shallows of Shakespearean ondon stage or to Britain, sa has fosind in working on the part of Angekt in. Measure for
stage.
Measure. ANA they promis in the wrong direction is all refinery if there is nghing be- | without anaesthetics by and coal cutter. ("Nobody's style.
beston his record yat.”).
He ta smouldering with the to be a unique revelation or
theatrical method. Yet it's over three years noto was in T From whore
ambition to tackle some of the Tor, although Burton meista For for and his wife Burion since, Éturion véné tes in the
great claime, roles — notably, that he hates sufriend, gossip, Lazancia pn. the river
1 threats in the river flare-up Sybil, who comes from the bas built a chalat in the garden,' Londen theatre. And Itwo of his remains. The taxinän
Richard II and Leurmand de la immune to the excilement of could see no Iraqi troops.
But though if fighting were to break some corner of the Prin where for has recovered from this, however successful at the
and the right way for our time theatrical atmospherics. /_ and reports in Abadan say Iraq is out betwem Persia and Iraq reinforcing the area.
doubt cipality but the other side e after-effects of a wartime Sox offies, have given him
of delivering Shakespearean avoids reading books about his the Ruslans could no
shell.
much scope for acting,
own profession, - he the pccasion to bring of the fence (her father
Fierce family loyalty to
"I've beso in a lot of rubbisli, pressure on Persia in the snowy managed a mine)..
I'm only on the Brinkh dedicated artistmand, I think, * Having sarked the Cadillac, poe of the strangest forses us you know” be akys capuallý
London Express-Service). thì stage, he knows, that he can do great actor in the making. wilerden Exprám Serazion). Į tienidlo she getsleber's sachéwhat in Burton's Blv.
that is needed for disaster,
Persia is certainly bringing reinforcementa the area
Inte round Abadan. There are tanks, artillery and anti-aircraft gina
tween the two countries.
natural childbirth.
По So far Russia has made
Welsh, too, is her mother
north.
1
a pasylbent house. -
For this one solid resson
earned
about
In one zene in Britain,
wryly, he explained from wwwan Olona. 1,000,000-pin paper, «What: 45%. j^ARVM LILY tell you,” kid soil'slaking sốt